Cherry Coca-Cola (Coke) Cupcakes

These delicious Cherry Coca-Cola (Coke) Cupcakes are perfect for those Coca-Cola fans like myself. Made using deliciously sweet Cherry Coke and topped off with Cherry Coke buttercream frosting and a sweet fresh cherry.

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I can’t even remember never drinking Coke, but I wouldn’t have been drinking it from my baby bottle now, would I? In fact, that sounds pretty darn cool. 😆

I drink Coke every.single.day. and multiple times a day unless we’re out of it, then I get twitchy and nervous (joking, kinda).

Water? Pfffttt! Screw you water, I want my Coca-Cola. It has water in it, right? Then we’re settled, Coke it is please. Make it a pint too, thanking you kind sir.

I’ve been itching to make these Cherry Coke cupcakes for a long time. The only excuse I have for not creating them is the fact that Coke disappears in this house so fast that it’s pretty much always in someone’s glass.

Not only that, but it’s only the giant-man baby and I that drink Coca-Cola. I wonder what the trash/ recycling men think?!

We decided to make a night of it. It’s just too darn hot without A/C to be doing anything other than starfishing in front of the fan on full whack. So that’s what we did. Me, 3 kiddos and the giant man-baby. The kiddos and I decided to escape to the kitchen and bake leaving the room in-between additions/mixing since the oven was kicking out even more heat too!

These yummy Cherry Coca-Cola cupcakes are beautifully moist, fluffy and you can really taste the Cherry Coke flavour in them.

In fact, to amp up the flavours, in addition to the already present Cherry Coke in this recipe, I also added some Cola extract and some cherry flavouring to both the cupcakes and the buttercream frosting. The frosting also has cherry coca-cola in it to. *twitch, blink, twitch*

They’re also topped off with a sweet delicious fresh cherry. Seriously, what more could you ask for? Coke that you can eat and drink at the same time. Now I’m definitely behind this!

Why not try these Cherry Coca-Cola (Coke) cupcakes served with an ice cold bottle of Coke too? Yummers!

Cherry Coca-Cola (Coke) Cupcakes

Yield:12

Prep Time:15 minutes

Cook Time:20 minutes

These delicious Cherry Coca-Cola (Coke) Cupcakes are perfect for those Coca-Cola fans like myself. Made using deliciously sweet Cherry Coke and topped off with Cherry Coke buttercream frosting and a sweet fresh cherry.

Ingredients:

Cherry Coke Cupcakes

113g (½ cup) unsalted butter, softened

145g (¾ cup) brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

125ml (½ cup) cherry coca-cola/coke

63ml (¼ cup) buttermilk

125g (1 cup) self-raising flour

15g (1 tbsp) cocoa powder

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

a few drops of cola extract (Sainsbury’s or Lorann’s oils)

a few drops of cherry flavouring (Lorann’s oils or any extract)

Cherry Coke Frosting

approx. 50ml (¼ cup) Cherry Coca-Cola

110g (almost ¼ cup) unsalted butter, softened

approx. 350g (2¾-3 cups icing (confectioners’) sugar

a few drops of cola extract (Sainsbury’s or Lorann’s oils)

a few drops of cherry flavouring (Lorann’s oils or any extract)

Decorations

(optional) 12 fresh cherries

Directions:

To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 180°C, 350°F, Gas Mark 4. Place 12 cupcake liners into a muffin pan and set aside.

Beat the butter with the sugar until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla extract. Mix the cola and the buttermilk together in a jug. In a bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) together.

Pour about a third of the cherry coke and buttermilk mixture into the creamed butter and sugar, the sieve in about a third of the flour, cocoa powder, soda mix and stir well. Repeat this process until all ingredients are added and stir until blended and smooth.

Taste test the batter. If you feel the cherry cola flavour needs a little lift, add a few drops of both the cherry and cola extract/flavouring until desires taste is reached.

Pour into each cupcake liner to about ½ to ¾ full and bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer comes out clean, then remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

To make the frosting, cream the butter with the icing sugar adding the cherry coca-cola a little at a time until smooth and creamy.

Again, taste test the frosting. If you feel the cherry cola flavour needs a little lift, add a few drops of both the cherry and cola extract/flavouring until desires taste is reached.

To decorate, use a piping bag with a large star tip and pipe swirls onto each cupcake. Top off with a fresh cherry.

Notes:

When stirring the cupcake batter after the cola/buttermilk and self-raising flour has been mixed, it will become rather frothy. This is normal and the chemical reaction between the ingredients in the cola and the raising agents.

I LOVE THESE. In the US there’s a restaurant called Johnny Rocket’s and as a kid, I was obsessed with their cherry cokes and vanilla cokes! SO stinkin’ good. These cupcakes look gorgeous AND delicious!

These look AWESOME! I am a big Diet Coke fan, but I tend to buy it when I’m out rather than have it at home. Somehow then it feels like much more of a treat – a cold can straight from the supermarket fridge 🙂

Hehe, I know what you mean. I used to buy the bulk cans of cherry coke from Makro all the time. There’s just something more special drinking from a can rather than from a bottle. In fact, it’s even better when you’re on holiday abroad after a long hard day relaxing by the sea or pool and you order a coke and get it in a authentic glass bottle – bliss!

Can’t say I’m much of a fan of the diet drinks though. They taste funny to me without the proper sugar. I’m just a sugar fiend, but I guess you figured that out anyway! 😉

I’m in the UK and have had absolutely no problem buying Cherry Coke. It’s available in cans, small bottles and large bottles in all the supermarkets here in the east midlands. Where abouts are you in the UK? I had no idea it wasn’t available all over the UK, that sucks. Even Asda and TESCO do their own brand of cherry cola (I won’t drink it though).

You can sub out the cherry coke for regular coke and just add cherry flavouring though if you’re not able to find it. Just make sure you don’t use diet as you need the sugars in the coke for this recipe.

I’m not in the US, but I know that LorAnn oils comes from the US. We have to import them here. I used the LorAnn oils in this recipe (apart from the frosting since the LorAnn flavouring since it’s dark cola coloured).

I can’t really answer on where to purchase them from since I’ve never been to the states – le sigh. Perhaps from the LorAnn Oils website? Hopefully someone may chime in with some info on where to buy them in the states. I’d imagine that any decent cake decorating store sells them though. That’s where I bought mine from locally.

If you’re still troubled on finding some, I could probably send you some over. But that would work out more expensive since they’re quite pricey here with the export costs being added to the retail price then shipping back to where they came from in the first place. 😆

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I’m just amazed with your site, and just fell in love with this recipe.
I found only one problem as I was planning to try it….here in my country (Brazil) we don’t have cherry cokes… could you help me and suggest an substitute for it that will keep it good and so delicious as it seems on your pics?

I’m afraid just mixing normal coke with cherry with maraschino liqueur … using the maraschino liqueur would work as well?

Would these be ok without the cola essence? I cant get hold of any obviously short notice and am planning on making these tomorrow. didn’t realise it was so hard to get hold of! Im planning on getting some for next time but need it for tomorrow! :-/ help!!

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[…] How cute are these cupcakes!!! As cherries are in season over Summer what a gorgeous dessert or afternoon tea platter to offer to friends and family. They are a moist, light, fluffy delight topped with delicious cherry coke butter cream and a sweet fresh cherry! Even people that aren’t a fan of Cherry Coke are bound to like these little morsels of goodness! Get your hands on the recipe from sweet2eatbaking.com […]